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Concept to Cloud is a senior-led product engineering firm that builds MVPs and production products for companies in regulated industries: fintech, healthcare, private equity and research. The people who scope the work are the people who ship it.
We started in 2014 as Spicule Data, engineers who spent a decade building mission-critical systems at NASA JPL. Our best-known work is the cloud backend for PIXLISE on the Mars Perseverance rover, which cut processing from 30 hours to 10 minutes and was runner-up for NASA Software of the Year 2023. We bring the same discipline to commercial products: every system ships with a tested answer for how it breaks and how you recover.
How we work:
Assess (1–2 weeks, $8K–$50K): a fixed-price read of your product, from interface to infrastructure, ending in a costed plan.
Build (from $40K per 3-week sprint): production-ready MVPs and products, with auth, core flows, CI/CD and deployment, ready for real users.
Embed (from $12K/month): fractional and interim engineering and product leadership that stays on after launch.
Recent work includes a research data platform for Princeton that cut research cycles 4–8×, an audit-ready sanctions-compliance platform now used by 20+ financial institutions, and a financial-crime detection engine for Consilient whose deployment time dropped from weeks to about a day. We also maintain Saiku, the open-source semantic layer used by data teams since 2009.
Offices in New York and Alexandria, VA, with coverage from 8am to 10pm ET.
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Min project size
$5,000+
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Hourly rate
$150 - $199 / hr
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Employees
2 - 9
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Locations
Middletown, DE
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Year founded
Founded 2014
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- Middletown , DE
Service Lines
- AI Development
- 25%
- Computer Engineering
- 25%
Select Focus Area
- AI Expertise
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- Machine Learning
- 40%
- Application Platforms
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- Amazon Application Development Framework
- 40%
- Linux server
- 30%
- Azure Platform
- 15%
- AI Technologies & Models
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- Anthropic
- 60%
- Open AI GPT-3
- 25%
- Hugging Face Bloom
- 15%
- BI & Big Data Solutions
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- Other BI & data solutions
- 50%
- Snowflake
- 20%
- Tableau
- 15%
- BI & Big Data Focus
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Industries
- Financial services
- 35%
- Medical
- 20%
- Government
- 15%
- Education
- 10%
- Energy & natural resources
- 10%
- Insurance
- 10%
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Our Story
Concept to Cloud began as Spicule Data, founded in 2014 by engineers who spent a decade building mission-critical systems at NASA JPL, including the cloud backend for the PIXL instrument on the Mars Perseverance rover. Working on Mars landers and fusion research taught us that complexity is the enemy of reliability. Today we bring the same rigour to fintech, healthcare and private equity: boring-but-proven tools, systems small teams can run, and no vendor lock-in.
Meet the Team
Tom BarberDirector, Engineering & Strategy
Founder of Concept to Cloud. Ten years at NASA JPL building cloud platforms for missions that couldn't afford to fail, including the PIXLISE backend on the Mars Perseverance rover. Sets technical and strategic direction across every engagement.
Juan ResendizEngineering Manager
Engineering Manager at Concept to Cloud. Specializes in AI system design and Python data pipelines. Runs the engineering team day to day, keeping delivery on track and code shippable. Also contributes to Saiku and Project Bluefin open source.
Amelia PrasadDirector, Product
Director of Product at Concept to Cloud. Astrophysicist by training with work in atmospheric science at NASA, then crossed into product to build for the people research serves. Runs product management, UX and design across every engagement.
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